X1900 Thread - no nonsense

dis · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:18

geforceuser said:
any benchmarks from respectable sites out yet? the ones ive seen so far didnt convince me...

Anandtech and techreport have got them up

D.P. · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:27

thx. guru3d seems ok.
lol at driverheaven....

ATIHeaven bencharks have me in stitches again, how can they consistently churn out such pap

They must work to some forumla, like ATIscore=ATIscore*1.5, NVScore= NVscore/2.

jrodga2k5 · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:38

Wow it has been released with plenty of stock, very surprised lol!

Anyways guys, if you dont have a monitor capable of over 1280x1024 really whats the point? I mean the difference wiont be noticeable at that resolution!

Im more than happy with my x1800xt and also you can get the card at £299 which is a great price if you ask me! Take the difference of £169 and is it worth it? I dont know, it definately wont be yet.

Looks like a very good card but the G71 will probably be better still.

LabR@t · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:42

will the x1800XT i just ordered by cpu limited by a 3200 @ 2.4ghz [winnie]

jrodga2k5 · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:47

LabR@t said:
will the x1800XT i just ordered by cpu limited by a 3200 @ 2.4ghz [winnie]

I would say yes dependant on resolutions mate but it will perform extremely well so dont worry about that! I take it you took up the great offer then?

You will be very happy with the card

LabR@t · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:48

1680x1050 yer it will be better than 6800gt which started to keep up at that rez. off to work now till 6am cant wait till morning and format system for new motherboard+ card

LoadsaMoney · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:52

LabR@t said:
will the x1800XT i just ordered by cpu limited by a 3200 @ 2.4ghz [winnie]

Well my 3500+ is all stock 2.2ghz, is a bottleneck, but the performance is still awesome.

Rex-Kramer · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:08

Just done a quick 3d mark 05, got 8500 points thats with fx 57 and x1900 at stock.

Lots to gain i reckon

Gibbo · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:17

Rex-Kramer said:
Just done a quick 3d mark 05, got 8500 points thats with fx 57 and x1900 at stock.

Lots to gain i reckon

Definetely you should be scoring 10k+ and more like 11k-12k, maybe you need to do a fresh install.....

dis · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:26

jrodga2k5 said:
Anyways guys, if you dont have a monitor capable of over 1280x1024 really whats the point? I mean the difference wiont be noticeable at that resolution!

Future proofing, plus i like high frames when i'm playing COD2 etc online

speeduk · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:26

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1914665,00.asp

These guys always seem to give more realistic results.

LoadsaMoney · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:27

Gibbo said:
Definetely you should be scoring 10k+ and more like 11k-12k, maybe you need to do a fresh install.....

Agreed, stock 3500+, and stock x1800 XT here gets about 8.3k in 05, you also made sure AA/AF is off, and its all sliders to the left for performance, and V-Sync is off.

Goksly · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:28

or just a defrag / total driver removal and reinstall / stop services like antivirus and firewall etc.
Should help

BoomAM · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:28

jrodga2k5 said:
Anyways guys, if you dont have a monitor capable of over 1280x1024 really whats the point? I mean the difference wiont be noticeable at that resolution!

AA?
AF?
HDR?
There isnt a card out that can do 8xAA, 16xAF & HDR at the same time with good frame rates.
Regardless of resolution, people at 1280x1024 could still benefit from the new cards.

Goksly · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:30

^^ 100% agree with that.
Still trying to decided whether to get a XL or XT - does the extra video ram make a difference at 1280x1024 with high AA/AF/HDR?

Sumanji · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:30

Just read the TR review... sorry but I'm not impresed at all. G71 is gonna slam into X1900 at 700MHz and annihilate it. And no, I'm not an nV fanboi, check the sig

Suman

Phinor · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:44

jrodga2k5 said:
Wow it has been released with plenty of stock, very surprised lol!

..which reminds me this Internet thingie is very nice. I can actually order and get one of these just released cards. I bet the local (finnish) shops have these cards maybe in february, or march, and even then only few cards here and there

Fx-Overlord · 24 Jan 2006 at 19:15

sumang007 said:
Just read the TR review... sorry but I'm not impresed at all. G71 is gonna slam into X1900 at 700MHz and annihilate it. And no, I'm not an nV fanboi, check the sig

Suman

The amount i'm impressed with the x1900xtx is a function of what review i read. No, seriously. If you look at, say anandtech and driverheaven and compare it to Tech Report and Guru3D, you'll get my drift

Big.Wayne · 24 Jan 2006 at 19:29

Nixeh said:
I think above £500 for a gfx card is a totall stupendous price

I think above £300 for a gfx card is a totall stupendous price, actually anything over £200 really. .

dis said:
Future proofing, plus i like high frames when i'm playing COD2 etc online

The term *Future-Proofing* cannot be appled to graphics cards lol, actually I think the term in general is misleading. .

LoadsaMoney said:
Agreed, stock 3500+, and stock x1800 XT here gets about 8.3k in 05, you also made sure AA/AF is off, and its all sliders to the left for performance, and V-Sync is off.

Didn't you forget to switch down to 640x480 and change to 16-bit color

Cmon if your gonna do the bench mark, then whack up the AA/AF and as much eye candy as possible. Even better just forget the benchmark and load up your fave current game. If you have played a certain game for a while you become quite tuned to how your graphics perform, then when/if you get a new VGA card you should be able to tell the difference just by the feel. .

Rex-Kramer · 24 Jan 2006 at 19:38

Gibbo,

ill do a proper run tomorrow, needless to say it runs bf2 at 1600x1200 with everything on high and 6x AA on with no effort at all.